CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Strasbourg it runs 343 km to Strasbourg; allow about 4 h 54 of riding. On the way it passes La place forte de Neuf-Brisach, La Manufacture à Saint- Dié and back through La place forte de Neuf-Brisach. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
This part of the ride is 81 km of Route des Vins d'Alsace.
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Strasbourg sits where the Rhine, France and Germany come together, and the city has been passed back and forth between them for centuries. It was a free imperial city, then French from 1681, German from 1871 to 1918, French again, German again in the Second World War, and French since 1944. The history is written into the city, in the half-timbered houses of the Petite France quarter with their steep roofs, in the German-built Neustadt and the Palais du Rhin, in the language, Alsatian, which is a Germanic dialect still spoken by older residents, and in the food, with sauerkraut, tarte flambée and Riesling. Today the city is also the seat of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament.
Read the complete Strasbourg write-up.
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Strasbourg is where the day begins. Next is La place forte de Neuf-Brisach.
After the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697, France had to give the fortress of Breisach, on the right bank of the Rhine, back to the Habsburgs, and Louis XIV needed a new stronghold to guard the river. His engineer Vauban designed it from scratch on an empty plain on the left bank: Neuf-Brisach, a perfect octagon of walls, bastions and moats, with a grid of streets inside and a large central square with a church and a parade ground. Built between 1698 and the early eighteenth century, it was Vauban's last great work and is often considered his masterpiece. It is one of the twelve groups of Fortifications of Vauban, listed by UNESCO in 2008.
Read the complete La place forte de Neuf-Brisach write-up.
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La place forte de Neuf-Brisach comes up about 91 km into the recorded legs. Next is La Manufacture à Saint- Dié.
Le Corbusier designed only one factory in his long career, and it stands in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, a town in the Meurthe valley on the western side of the Vosges mountains. The Manufacture Claude et Duval, a hosiery factory built between 1946 and 1951, is a concrete block raised on pilotis, with a roof terrace and brightly coloured interiors, and it embodies many of the architect's principles. It was part of his plans for the reconstruction of Saint-Dié after the town was largely destroyed by the retreating German army in November 1944, though most of his grand urban plan was never built. In 2016, the factory was included in the UNESCO listing of the architectural work of Le Corbusier, alongside buildings in seven countries.
Read the complete La Manufacture à Saint- Dié write-up.
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about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach La Manufacture à Saint- Dié. Next is back through La place forte de Neuf-Brisach.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete La place forte de Neuf-Brisach write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through La place forte de Neuf-Brisach, late in the day. Next is Strasbourg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Strasbourg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Strasbourg. That is the ride.
Strasbourg → La place forte de Neuf-Brisach is 91 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
La place forte de Neuf-Brisach → La Manufacture à Saint- Dié is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
La Manufacture à Saint- Dié → back through La place forte de Neuf-Brisach is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through La place forte de Neuf-Brisach → Strasbourg is 90 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.